Rochester

Click this photo of Maria and be dazzled by her beauty...

Making more eggs

More intimate moments

Four treasures

Well I caught Kaver and Mariah mating! So there are more eggs to come. And that is great! We will just to wait and see, will the clutch be 5 or 6?

Nijmegen: territorial battle!

In the afternoon of this sunday we saw on the webcams an intruding female on the ledge and coming into the nestbox. The male peregrine was there immediately, but stayed on the ledge.

The 2 females where fighting in the box. And it was some fierce battle. Our female had all her feathers stucked up to frighten off the intruder. Just watch the video and you can see what happened. The video was made by Arjen Rodenhuis.

http://www.youtube.com/user/arjenmax

Later that evening one of the members of our DenkTank was there in Nijmegen and saw a second battle in which our female gave the intruder quite a beating with her wings. The intruder fell of the ledge. Good riddance that was indeed. Way to go girl!

http://slechtvalken.blogspot.com/search/label/Nijmegen

Columbus Ohio

Still the same. 1 Egg, and 2 very confused peregrines.

In the pic below it looks like she is laying, but she was not.

Maybe there is an egg on it's way afterall?

Zwolle

Sussex Heights: winterwonderland

Oberhausen

Well..... I'm afraid this is all we have been seeing all day. The cams where stuck again, so no eyases. No idea how they are. How the little one is doing. We all do hope things are working again tomorrow!

Terminal Tower Cleveland

Zurich

The male is keeping an eye on things while the female is breeding inside the alcove on the left.

And he's preening, of course. It's a matter of life and death. It really is. Preening, keeping the feathers well looked after is no vanity. It's serious business. The feathers have to be waterproof, they have to be impregnated with oil from the preening gland. The featherbarbs must be zipped together again. So it is waterproof as well as airtight to keep the isolationfunction optimal. So peregrine falcons spend a great deal of time on preening.

De Mortel

Breeding, changing guards, we are so happy that we can watch the images again. And be there with our so beloved S2 and Pa. Thanks to Alticom who is the new owner of the tower and InterNl.net our new sponsors.

We expect the eyases to hatch in 2 weeks at the 19th. So exciting!!

Rome

The final days before hatching.

Expected hatchdate: April 8, so it won't be long before we can welcome the first eyas overhere!